The 12 days of GCHQ quizmas: test your brain power with these daily puzzles

The 2015 WIRED 100: 100-76

This article will be published in the September 2015 issue of WIRED magazine. Be the first to read WIRED's articles in print before they're posted online, and get your hands on loads of additional content by subscribing online

For the September issue of WIRED we surveyed our extensive network to identify the 100 most influential people in our world, across Europe. Ahead of the issue hitting newsstands on Thursday 6 August, we are publishing 25 profiles everyday. Here are numbers 100 to 76. You can check out the WIRED 100 numbers 75-51 here.

ADVERTISEMENT

100

Alexander Llung and Eric Wahlforss

Web/OtherCEO and CTO, Soundcloud, Berlin

SoundCloud faces tough challenges, from copyright claims to the Apple juggernaut. But what gives its founders influence is their 175m monthly users and their visibility as Berlin's iconic social network. Can they persuade enough fans to pay a fee to put the $123m-funded firm in profit?

Read more

Sinking like a Pebble: is the Fitbit buyout a sign the wearables market is doomed?

ByAmelia Heathman

99

James Bridle

Web/Social/PoliticsArtist/writer, London

As both a tech writer and artist, 34-year-old Bridle is politically charged and has an influential following. He's one of the first artists to understand the internet and make politically charged works about it. His Instagram project, Dronestagram, plots aerial photographs of unreported drone-strike locations.

Bayes will probably turn out to be to the information age what Einstein was to physicsMike Lynch

ADVERTISEMENT

Read more

Samsung doesn't have to pay Apple $399 million, Supreme Court rules

ByJames Temperton

Mike Lynch

Olaf Blecker

98

Mike Lynch

Tech/investmentFounder, Invoke Capital, London

Mike Lynch's Autonomy was acquired by HP for $11.7bn, before allegations of cooked books (strongly denied) flew and he was sued for $5.1bn. In 2013, he re-emerged with Invoke Capital and invested £12m in cybersecurity startup Darktrace, which combines expertise from Cambridge University, GCHQ, MI5 and the NSA.

ADVERTISEMENT

Read more

Apple letter is clearest hint yet it's working on a self-driving car

ByVictoria Woollaston

97

Nigel Eccles

OtherCEO, FanDuel, Edinburgh/New York

Since co-founding FanDuel in 2009 out of Hubdub, a news-prediction startup, Eccles, 40, has seen his fantasy American-football platform expand to host over 30,000 leagues and to secure exclusive rights from the NBA for basketball. In July, a $275 million funding round valued it at more than $1 billion.

96

Niklas Östberg

Web/RetailCEO, Delivery Hero, Berlin

The online food ordering startup operates in 34 markets, with 200,000 restaurants delivering ten million orders a month. In September, the company raised $350m, bringing total investment to more than $1bn since Ostberg, 35, founded it in 2011. Its current valuation is $3 billion. His next step? An IPO.

95

Andy McLoughlin

Tech/computingCo-founder, Huddle, California/London

McLoughlin and partner Alastair Mitchell launched their cloud-based co-working software in 2006. By December 2014, with McLoughlin, 36, as executive VP, Huddle was used by 80 per cent of the Fortune 500, and its value was around £1bn. In March he left to work at Silicon Valley VC firm SoftTech.

Jimmy Wales

Nick Wilson

94

Jimmy Wales

WebCo-founder, Wikipedia, London

Read more

Pebble shuts down as it confirms it's being bought by Fitbit

ByVictoria Woollaston

The founder and "benevolent dictator" of the web's sixth most popular site has been speaking out against government surveillance and the tech sector's gender gap. As an adopted Londoner, Wales, 48, is also involved with Shoreditch's ventures such as People's Operator, a telco that invests in charities.

93

Yossi Vardi

Investment/gamingCo-chairman, DLD, Tel Aviv

Regarded as the godfather of the Israeli tech scene, Vardi, 73, has founded and invested in tech companies ranging from software to energy production over his 40-plus years in the field. In addition to all this, Vardi is also a regular on the tech circuit, and serves as co-chair of the DLD (Digital-Life-Design) conference.

92

Funding Circle team

InvestmentP2P Money-Lending Service, London

Read more

GoPro woe as the firm sheds 200 employees and shuts its entertainment arm

ByVictoria Woollaston

In April, Samir Desai's startup closed a £150 million funding round, reflecting its remarkable success in the overcrowded peer-to-peer lending market. Funding Circle now has access to over 38,000 investors, who lent £100m to small businesses in Q1 2015 alone. The company hopes to hit $1bn in loans this year.

91

Sina Afra

Tech/Investment/DesignEntrepreneur, Istanbul

In May 2014, the 47-year-old Turkish entrepreneur exited his flash-sales site Markafoni. The former European director of M&A for eBay is an angel investor and eco-entrepreneur -- in May his design studio Atölye Labs launched low-carbon brand UNDO Laces. He's a connector in Istanbul's tech scene.

90

Russ Shaw

Read more

'Now is the best time in history to be an entrepreneur in Europe': State of European Tech report

ByVictoria Woollaston

Shaw, 52, has been pushing for increased broadband speeds, modernised transport infrastructure and more office space for the capital. In February, he hosted the first Tech London Advocates event in New York and urged the UK tech sector to remain politically neutral before the general election.

89

Eileen Burbidge

Tech/OtherCo-founder, Passion Capital, London

The 44-year-old Burbidge has invested in more than 40 companies, including DueDil, GoCardless and EyeEm, through the VC firm she co-founded. She's interested in cybersecurity, investing privately in secure-messaging app Wickr, and advises London's first cybersecurity accelerator, CyLon.

88

Gerd Leonhard

Read more

This one chart reveals how many European firms have been bought by Apple, Amazon and Alphabet

ByVictoria Woollaston

There are hundreds of consultancies that help corporates understand the challenges of a fast-moving world, but few have a client list like Leonhard's. From Google to the European Commission, the 54-year-old futurist has the ear of some of the world's most significant decision makers.

87

Ben Medlock and Jon Reynolds

Tech/ComputingCo-Founders, SwiftKey, London

The predictive-typing app is now on over 200m smartphones. In May 2015, it moved towards monetising its user base by offering personalised keyboard themes. SwiftKey has expanded into the Asian market -- Hindi is available on Android, and there are plans for Japanese too.

85

Zoe Sugg

SocialYoutube star, Brighton

The 25-year-old Brightonian -- better known as Zoella -- is the queen of YouTube. She has 8.3m subscribers to her fashion and beauty channel. Her popularity has earned her commercial tie-ins including a make-up range, and her 2014 novel Girl Online -- the first of a two-book deal -- was reportedly the fastest-selling British debut book ever.

Dunleavy, 54, has been chief executive of Pinewood Group since 2000. Spectre, James Bond's 24th iteration, and Lucasfilm's new galactic adventure were both filmed on the lot near Iver, but the group also has studios in Canada, the US, Germany, the Dominican Republic and Malaysia.

83

Jérôme Jarre

SocialVine and Snapchat star, New York/France

French-born but NY-based Jarre, 25, has more than 8.5 million followers on Vine -- and over a million more on Snapchat. His charming, six-second comedy videos have been played over a billion times, bringing him a reported six-figure salary and high-profile partnerships, including with Paramount.

82

Paul Tighe

PoliticsSecretary of the Pontifical Council for Social Communications, Vatican City

Tighe, a 57-year-old Irishman who's a step or two away from being the online voice of God, manages the Pope's app and Twitter account. In April 2015, Pope Francis appointed him to streamline and modernise the Vatican's comms policy.

81

Oskar Hartmann

Through Hartmann Holdings -- his family-owned investment vehicle -- the 32-year-old launched ShoppingLive, Sapato.ru, FastLane, SIMILE Ventures, CarPrice and Zaodno. His fashion site KupiVIP dominates the local market -- in April it purchased Sapato.ru, the Zappos clone.

80

Kristian Segerstrale

Investment/GamingCOO, Super Evil Megacorp, California/Finland

Since selling his game-dev company, Playfish, to EA for $300m in 2009, he, 38, has focused on bringing multiplayer online battle arena games to tablets. Now COO at developer Super Evil Megacorp, he oversaw the release of the company's inaugural game, Vainglory.

79

Ludovic Le Moan

Tech/Web/ComputingFounder and CEO, Sigfox, Toulouse

As CEO of Sigfox, a wireless network used for machine-to-machine communication and the internet of things, Le Moan, 52, raised $115 million in February in what was at the time the biggest funding round in French history. The cash will be used to build a network in Europe, Asia and the Americas.

78

Cara Delevingne

SocialModel/actress, London

Of all Instagram's European users, only Cristiano Ronaldo has more followers. The 22-year-old has amassed over 13.2 million followers. A single shot will often break 600,000 likes -- few in fashion wield as much brand power as her. Next, she's looking towards Hollywood with a role in DC Comics' hotly anticipated Suicide Squad.

76

Alice Zagury

Tech/InvestmentFounder, TheFamily, Paris

In March, French paper Le Parisien named Zagury, 30, the most influential "entrepreneuse" in Paris. The CEO and co-founder of accelerator TheFamily supports 270 startups and opened an office in London in May. Facebook announced it will offer mobile services associated with one TheFamily startup.